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Published on 14 April 2021 With Ramadan starting this week for the world’s 1.8 billion Muslims, another much smaller and more ancient religious group largely based in Iraq is also celebrating an important religious festival. “Red Wednesday” is the Yazidi New Year, and the IDS-led Coalition for Religious Equality and Inclusive Development has been working with heritage gatherers in Iraq to record and document their culture as part of a wider effort to rebuild communities following years of devastating conflict and genocide. The Yazidis are one of Iraq’s religious minorities, primarily living in the Sinjar and Shaykhan districts of Ninewa governorate in northern Iraq. Sadly, they are perhaps the most known religious minority in Iraq following the Daesh genocide campaign against them that started in August 2014 and resulted in the displacement of approximately 500,000 Yazidis (PDF). Almost seven years later, most still live in camps in the K

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